Strikes on King Khalid International Airport expose Saudi air defense failures, inviting hurried U.S. intervention and proving that distant sieges cannot shield the interior.
By Tom Beckwith ·
If you want to know the price of a mistake made by people in air-conditioned offices who have never seen a basis chart or a dry well, you don’t look at a press release.
By Ruth Behrens ·
Donald Trump believes the world is a series of real estate deals where the right amount of pressure on a ledger can force a tenant to vacate.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
Down here in El Paso, we know that the price of a gallon of gas isn't just a number on a sign—it’s the difference between a housekeeper making it to her shift on time or walking…
By Alma Cordero ·
The world is treating the current collapse in Yemen as a humanitarian tragedy—which it is—but that is a category error.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
The capture of Perim Island is not a tactical skirmish; it is a systemic failure of deterrence.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
The world is once again learning that the distance between a stable global economy and a chaotic one is exactly the width of a few rocky islands.
By Caroline Ashford ·
When I was a charge nurse in the ER, we had a saying: the quietest patient is usually the sickest.
By Josie Calloway ·
In the ER, we have a saying: the quietest patient is usually the sickest.
By Josie Calloway ·
When I was balancing the books for my father’s hardware store back in Amarillo, we lived and died by the ledger.
By Grant Colby ·
The global North has a particular kind of amnesia when it comes to the waters of the South.
By Sophie Naimi ·
The map of the Red Sea has been rewritten, and the United States and Israel are reading the old version.
By Adele Rutherford ·
The global economy just took a hit to the solar plexus, and the blow came from a rocky volcanic island in the middle of the Bab al-Mandeb strait.
By Grant Colby ·
There is a quiet, terrifying math to what is happening in the Red Sea, and it is a math that ends with the erosion of the stability we have spent decades, and trillions of dollars, trying to build.
By Caroline Ashford ·
When the national average for diesel clears six dollars a gallon, it stops being a "geopolitical development" and starts being a tax on every working person in this country.
By Ray Dombrowski ·
The map of the Red Sea has just been rewritten, and the ink is the blood of 20,000 displaced civilians.
By Aoife Gallagher ·